1.Which of the possible venues do you think would best suit this play? Why do you believe the dramatic action would be best served in this venue? I think that this is a personal choice depending on how close the director wants the audience to be to the stage. This theoretically could be done in a cellar theatre where the audience is close to the actors or proscenium stage where the audience is slightly distant towards the audience. I don’t think this should be done in a thrust stage for this play can’t be seen on a 180 viewpoint. I personally would prefer for the play to be on a cellar theatre for I want my audience to be uncomfortable when watching the play.
2.What are some of the design challenges posed by the play?The main challenge is the car that happens a couple of scenes. The actors have very limited space and so much happens inside the car that the audience might have a hard time grasping the gravity is there isn’t of lot of space. Also, determining how the car should be built and designed can be costly, heavy, and expensive.
3.Choose the various chorus characters and discuss how you see them dressed. In what ways do you think the costumes you describe would help articulate their purpose in this play?The chorus characters I envisioned all wearing simple 60s style clothing that requires little accessories so it would be easier to change out throughout the performance. The clothing should allude to nothing significant for their words would speak loudly than their clothing. I also want to give off the notion that style wasn’t important to any of the chorus member except for the teenage chorus girls and boys. They would wear a popular cliché outfit that resembles Grease the Musical.
4.Provide some ideas about the use of light in the play? I would frequently change the intensity of the lighting depending on where Lil’bit is in her story. So moments when she is with her Uncle, I would dim the lights and make it romantic and moments she is with her family, make the lights slightly brighter, and when it’s just Lil’bit on stage, I would have her spotlighted.
5.Suggest music and sound effects that could help accentuate the mood or atmosphere of the play. I would try to be as true to the playwright wishes and play music when written and not when nothing is written. To me I can tell that Vogel wants certain songs at certain times and I didn’t really envision a whole lot of music would play in the background. The situations that happen are so intense that I want the silence and dialogue to reverberate and not be drowned in music.
I think that this is a personal choice depending on how close the director wants the audience to be to the stage. This theoretically could be done in a cellar theatre where the audience is close to the actors or proscenium stage where the audience is slightly distant towards the audience. I don’t think this should be done in a thrust stage for this play can’t be seen on a 180 viewpoint. I personally would prefer for the play to be on a cellar theatre for I want my audience to be uncomfortable when watching the play.
2. What are some of the design challenges posed by the play? The main challenge is the car that happens a couple of scenes. The actors have very limited space and so much happens inside the car that the audience might have a hard time grasping the gravity is there isn’t of lot of space. Also, determining how the car should be built and designed can be costly, heavy, and expensive.
3. Choose the various chorus characters and discuss how you see them dressed. In what ways do you think the costumes you describe would help articulate their purpose in this play? The chorus characters I envisioned all wearing simple 60s style clothing that requires little accessories so it would be easier to change out throughout the performance. The clothing should allude to nothing significant for their words would speak loudly than their clothing. I also want to give off the notion that style wasn’t important to any of the chorus member except for the teenage chorus girls and boys. They would wear a popular cliché outfit that resembles Grease the Musical.
4. Provide some ideas about the use of light in the play?
I would frequently change the intensity of the lighting depending on where Lil’bit is in her story. So moments when she is with her Uncle, I would dim the lights and make it romantic and moments she is with her family, make the lights slightly brighter, and when it’s just Lil’bit on stage, I would have her spotlighted.
5. Suggest music and sound effects that could help accentuate the mood or atmosphere of the play.
I would try to be as true to the playwright wishes and play music when written and not when nothing is written. To me I can tell that Vogel wants certain songs at certain times and I didn’t really envision a whole lot of music would play in the background. The situations that happen are so intense that I want the silence and dialogue to reverberate and not be drowned in music.